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Nexus Australia Youth Summit: Top 23 Insights

The 3rd annual Nexus Australia Youth Summit convened March 6 – 8, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. The Summit brought together young philanthropists, impact investors, social entrepreneurs and allies – including family business members, successful entrepreneurs, and inspiring social change leaders. They discussed the challenges facing the world today and innovative solutions to them.

Connecting the financial, intellectual, creative, and social capital of our generation in action-oriented, solutions-focused, and safe space, the Nexus Australia Youth Summit aimed to inspire learning and collaboration between a uniquely powerful network of peers.

A varied and interactive program of panels, workshops, and social activities explored philanthropy, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship, family dynamics, strategies for investing and attracting investment, social transformation, and more.

Here are the top 23, 140-character takeaways from theNexus Australia Youth Summit 2016. Thank you to all that helped capture these little gems of inspiration and added to the lively twitter chatter.

Impact investing like High School sex: everyone talking, no one doing & if you are doing you’re probably not doing it very well #wearenexus:: @madeleinephoebe

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